Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Angel Brings Souls to Shore
A winged steersman rises over a close company of pale figures arriving across the water. Two travellers watch from the left, near reeds on the bank. The great upright wings distinguish the heavenly pilot from the clustered passengers below. Doré compresses the crossing into an arrival that is both a journey and a gathering, with the watchers giving the luminous boat a place in the larger narrative of the mountain.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Angel Brings Souls to Shore" [editorial title]. In Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante, Dante Alighieri; translated by Henry Francis Cary; illustrated by Gustave Doré. New edition, 1901, 1901, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 24. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-23
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Gustave Doré (design). The Angel Brings Souls to Shore. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 24. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-23